Blocked

Which country was this coffee grown in?

ALS-COFFEE-1.0-PROV-001

This question matters to a buyer and CANNOT be answered from a public product page today. What would be required is stated in full.

Why this cannot be run

Blocked by G-01.

Assertion

growing_country is_stated true

Applicability

applies when
the product is roasted coffee
signal
product_type or title indicates coffee

Accepted evidence

  • product_description — a named growing country attributed to this coffee, distinct from where it was roasted
  • structured_data — the same statement inside the JSON-LD product description

Explicitly insufficient evidence

What does not count, and why. Published because the omission is where a check quietly becomes a claim.

  • "Product of USA", "Made in USA", "Roasted in USA"
    Under customs substantial-transformation practice these describe ROASTING, so a check that maps them to growing origin will systematically record Ethiopian coffee as American. The legally correct origin marking is the one that hides the answer buyers want, and this is the highest-value trap in the whole standard.
  • "Italian roast", "French roast", "Vienna roast"
    These are roast-degree style names, and Italian roast is the canonical false positive for any origin extractor.
  • "Imported"
    It satisfies a marking requirement while naming no country at all.
  • a region, farm, washing station or varietal name with no country
    Evocative and unresolvable; several region names exist in more than one country and some varietal names are also place names.
  • "Latin American blend" or "African blend"
    A region is not a country, and blend composition legitimately varies batch to batch.
  • a flag emoji or graphic
    Not page text, not read by the engine, and frequently decorative rather than a claim.

Conflict rules

  • When a roasting location and a growing country both appear — then attribute each to its own act; a roasting statement must never satisfy a growing-origin assertion precedence: product_description > structured_data
  • When the product is a blend naming several countries — then record all named origins; "a place is stated" and "the origin of this coffee is stated" are different questions and the second is the one asked

Discrimination

Predicted fail rate: 20-55% (predicted, not yet measured)

Specialty coffee names origins constantly while supermarket-style listings often do not, so a real split exists. The band is a hypothesis about two seller populations and the engine has no mechanism to measure it, which is why the entry is blocked rather than predicted with confidence.

For a shopper

Where coffee is roasted and where it is grown are different facts, and the phrase you are most likely to see on a US bag describes roasting. If the page names no growing country, no amount of made-in wording fills that gap.

For a merchant

Name the growing country in product text, keeping it clearly distinct from any statement about where the coffee was roasted, and add the region where you know it.

Grounding